Culinary utensil



A. COHN AND L. H. DEBS.

CULINARY UYENSIL.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 20. IBIS.

1,308,482. v rammed July 1, 1919 lib UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT GOI-IN AND Louis H. nrnasyor CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

i CULINARY UTENSIL.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that We, ALBERT COHN and LOUIS H. Duns, citizens of the United States,

residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Culinary Utensils, of which the following is a specification;

Our inventionrelates to an improvement in the class of culinary utensils, in which a plurality of cup-like receptacles are joined together to providea single utensil for use in cooking material introduced into the cups.

The ordinary muffin-pan is an example in the class referred to; and since we have devised our invention more especially for embodiment in that particular kind of culinary utensil, the description hereinafter contained present invention is to avoid such waste.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a top plan view of a muflin-pan embodying our invention in its preferred form, and Fig. 2 is a section on line 2-2, Fig. 1.

Our improved muflin-pan, which may best be formed of sheet-metal, comprises as its essential features a central support provided with edge-recesses at intervals, and cups secured about their open ends in the recesses, each recess extending only part way about the cup therein, and the cups being spaced from each other by tongues extending between adjacent cups, and which are formed by the recesses. These essential features may be embodied in various forms of the utensil, all of which are intended to be included within our invention.

In the embodiment of our invention in the illustrated muffin-pan, the center supporting a plurality of cups is itself formed, as by stamping, as a cup 3, provided with a marginal flange having arc-shaped edge-recesses 4 at intervals and forming spacing-tongues 5. A cup 6 fits at its edge-portion, which may be beaded, for purposes of reinforcement, about its u per edge as represented at Fig. 2, into eac recess and is secured in place therein, as lay clenching, riveting or i Specification of Letters Patent. Patented July 1, 1919. Application filed May20,1918. Serial no. 235,495.

otherwise. It is found to be desirable to fold under, each upon itself,and thus stiffen thetongues 5 at their outer edge portions as indicatedat 8. a y

The tongues 5 formed by cutting out the arc-shaped recesses extend,as will be seen,

between thecupsG and on a plane with the.

Thee-ups 6 thus cluster aboutthe central cup 3, to which they are rigidly united, by the center or flange, in properly spaced relation, the whole forming a substantial structure, even when made of comparatively light sheet-metal, since by the union of the cups in the cluster with the central flange, all of these members tend to reinforce each other against being bent out of shape and re sultant mutilation of the utensil; and the central cup supplements that reinforcement, it being formed integral with the recessed flange about its edge.

It has been found in actual practice that the structure thus made up is less liable to distortion either in handling, or due to the effect of the heat, than the ordinary form of structures heretofore employed for this purpose where the binding metal entirely surrounds the cups. Thus when the structure is distorted by bending two of the cups upwardly or downwardly it is found that the remainder of the structure follows such movements and that there is no straight line of bending through the binder or center whereby repetition of such bending along such line would cause breakage along such weakened portion. The binder or'center is found to bend as a whole either upwardly or downwardly according to the direction in which such edge cups are bent. Moreover, the improved construction requires a comparatively small amount of sheet-metal to be employed for producing it, with resultant economy, there being no waste, and involves relatively low cost of productidn.

We claim:

1. A culinary utensil comprising a binder placed between a series of cups and pro valet at its edge with a write of racemes all an area sufiicient to but partially surround the cups to be secured therein, and a series of cups fitting at a portion of their edges in said recesses and secured therein.

2. A culinary utensil comprising a binder placed between a series of cups and provided at its edge with a series of recesses of an area suflicient to but partially surround the cups to be secured therein, and a series of cups fitting at a portion of their edges in said recesses and secured therein, the edge portions of said binder between said recesses extending between the cups and being selui'e t r t 3. A culinary utensil comprising a binder placed between a series of cups and consist ing of a cup havinga circumferential binderforming flange provided at its edge lwitha series of recesses of an area sufficient to but partially surround the cups to be secured rein and a r f ups tt at a tion of their edges in said recesses and secured therein. H i 1 4, culinary utensil comprising a binder placed between a series of cups and consistmg of a cup having a clrculnferentlal binderforming flange provided at its edge with a series of recesses of an area sufficient to but partially surround the cups to be secured therein, and a series of cups fitting at a portion of their edges in said recesses and secnred therein, the edge portions of said binder-forming flange between said recesses extending between the outer cups and being seeured thereto.

5. culinary utensil comprising a circular sheet-metal binder placed between a series of cups and forming a cup provided at intervals in its edge with arc-shaped recesses of, an area sufficient to but partially surround the cups to be secured therein, and cups fitting at a portion of their edges in said recesses and secured therein and forming a clusterv about and united to the central li ALBERT COHN. LOUIS H. DEBS.

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